With permission granted by the Synod of Philadelphia, the first meeting of the Presbytery of Donegal was held in the Donegal (church) Meeting House in Lancaster County on Oct. 11, 1732. At that time, Donegal was spelled “Dunagall.” (Later it was spelled “Donnegal,” “Donnegall” and finally “Donegal.”) A minister then was frequently referred to as “Mister” and often only by his last name. For at least its first 50 years, the business of the presbytery was largely devoted to the “appointment of ministers, rigorous examination of candidates and the hearing and acting upon complaints.”...